Re: Linux 6.18 amdgpu build error

[Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>]

On 12/2/25 14:23, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 12/2/25 13:01, Shuah Khan wrote:
>> On 12/1/25 19:31, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>>> On Mon, Dec 01, 2025 at 03:17:49PM -0700, Shuah Khan wrote:
>>>> Hi Alex,
>>>>
>>>> I am seeing the following make error on Linux 6.18.
>>>> I started seeing build failures since rc7 and rc6
>>>> build was just fine on the same config file.
>>>>
>>>> LD [M]  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu.o
>>>> drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu.o: error: objtool: elf_init_reloc: .rela.orc_unwind_ip: reloc 39935 already initialized!
>>>> make[6]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:503: drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu.o] Error 255
>>>> make[6]: *** Deleting file 'drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu.o'
>>>> make[5]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:556: drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu] Error 2
>>>> make[4]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:556: drivers/gpu/drm] Error 2
>>>> make[3]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:556: drivers/gpu] Error 2
>>>> make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:556: drivers] Error 2
>>>> make[1]: *** [/linux/linux_6.18/Makefile:2010: .] Error 2
>>>> make: *** [Makefile:248: __sub-make] Error 2
>>>>
>>>> I tried "make clean" and "make distclean" just in case, still see
>>>> the same error.
>>>>
>>>
>>> My test system does not report any problems. What is the configuration
>>> and compiler ?
>>>
>>
>> My one test system didn't report any problems. The other one did.
>> I am using gcc and the config is the same as the one used to build
>> 6.18-rc6 with no issues.
>>
>> I will keep digging to find what's wrong on my system.
>>
>> gcc version 14.2.0 (Debian 14.2.0-19)
>>
> 
> Interesting. That reminds me ... I used to have that kind of machine specific
> problems when building with CONFIG_RANDSTRUCT enabled. I worked around it
> by using gcc builds with plugin support disabled. In my case, there was
> nothing wrong with the system, just that each system has a slightly different
> hardware configuration which somehow influenced structure randomization, even
> across "make clean/distclean".
> 

CONFIG_RANDSTRUCT is disabled and so are the GCC_PLUGINS in my config.
I am also seeing issues with cloning kernel.org repos on my system after
a recent update:

remote: Enumerating objects: 11177736, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (1231/1231), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (624/624), done.
remote: Total 11177736 (delta 855), reused 781 (delta 606), pack-reused 11176505 (from 1)
Receiving objects: 100% (11177736/11177736), 3.01 GiB | 7.10 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (9198323/9198323), done.
fatal: did not receive expected object 0002003e951b5057c16de5a39140abcbf6e44e50
fatal: fetch-pack: invalid index-pack output

Happy start to the end of the year :(

thanks,
-- Shuah